| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 728 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Jefferson (17431826) |
| QUOTATION: | Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | THOMAS JEFFERSON, Autobiography, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 1, p. 113 (1892). |
| SUBJECTS: | Government |
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